Health Literacy in Korean Adults and Korean American Immigrants: Implications for Achieving Health Equity.

IF 1.3 Q2 Social Sciences

International Quarterly of Community Health Education Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Epub Date: 2020-11-17 DOI:10.1177/0272684X20973511

Soondool Chung, Hee Yun Lee, Miwoo Lee, Semi Chung

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Abstract

Health literacy is necessary to understand health information and make appropriate decisions regarding one's health. This study aims to investigate (1) the health literacy level of Korean citizens and Korean American (KA) immigrants in the United States and (2) factors that influence health literacy across three age groups. A quota sampling method was used to collect cross-sectional survey data from 404 Korean participants and 404 KA immigrants. Andersen's behavioral model was used as the theoretical framework for this study. Overall, Korean participants had a higher mean score on health literacy than did the KA immigrants. Only one of predisposing and enabling factors were significant variables influencing health literacy in KA immigrants, while several predisposing, enabling and need factors were significantly associated with health literacy in Korean adults. Our findings indicate that both countries need to have a community-based health literacy educational program that is tailored to each age group.

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韩国成年人和韩裔美国移民的健康素养:对实现健康公平的影响。

健康素养对于了解健康信息并就个人健康作出适当的决定是必要的。本研究旨在探讨(1)在美韩国公民和韩裔移民的健康素养水平;(2)三个年龄组健康素养的影响因素。采用定额抽样的方法，收集了404名韩国参与者和404名KA移民的横断面调查数据。本研究采用安徒生行为模型作为理论框架。总体而言，韩国参与者在健康素养方面的平均得分高于KA移民。只有一个易感因素和使能因素是影响KA移民健康素养的显著变量，而几个易感因素、使能因素和需要因素与韩国成年人健康素养显著相关。我们的研究结果表明，这两个国家都需要有一个基于社区的健康素养教育计划，为每个年龄组量身定制。

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International Quarterly of Community Health Education PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-

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期刊介绍： The International Quarterly of Community Health Education is committed to publishing applied research, policy and case studies dealing with community health education and its relationship to social change. Since 1981, this rigorously peer-referred Journal has contained a wide selection of material in readable style and format by contributors who are not only authorities in their field, but can also write with vigor, clarity, and occasionally with humor. Since its introduction the Journal has considered all manuscripts, especially encouraging stimulating articles which manage to combine maximum readability with scholarly standards.